Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-22
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In a
Condensed Form

Gillian county has l,026 bands OF
sheep aggregating l4a $50 head.
The receipts Of The Dalles postofiice
increased over 81 900 the past year
A lynx was killed by Henry vii.
liams on Eight-Mile, Wasco county.
Wallace X. Struble has been ap
pointed Secretary OF the State Board
Of Immigration.
A new postotlice has been estab-
lished at Carnos. Clackamas county,
with David Hunter as postmaster.
A new postofiice has been cstab-
lshed at Remote, Coos county, with
Herman S. Davis as postmaster.
At Pendleton the young son Of b.
T.. Shoemaker was fatally burned, his
clothing being ignited by fire crackers.
The telephone line between Jackson.
vile and Medford has been changed
into a telegraph line and is in working
order.
A daughter Of J. W. Red ord, o.
Redfork station, was kicked by horse
and very seriously injured. The young
lady was unconscious at last accounts
Uncle Jimmy Doherty, of Amity
was gored bya large Holstein bull. He
was terribly lacerated in the groin and
one arm crushed. 1t is doubtful il he
RECEIVERS.
Vice President Potter, OF the Union
Pacific, has appointed A. L. Maxwell
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
Of the Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company, with headquarters at Port
land.
The team Of Marion Thomas, resid.
ing near Scio, became frightened at a
train and run off high bridge one
mile below Albany. The carriage wal
broken to pieces, but the occupants
were unhurt.
Articles have been filed in the Office
OF the Secretary OF State incorporating
the Emma and Last Chance Consoli
dated Mining Company incorpor
ators, B. Goldsmith, 8. Goldsmith, ]
Bourne, Jr.; capital stock, 81 600, 900
Chas. Moore, a surveyor, was fright
fully beaten while attempting to locst,
a ranch in Warren valley, by part;e
hired by ring Of land grabbers TO
the purpose of keeping settlers from
locating on the public land adjacent
TO their ranges, Serious trouble il an
ticipated there.
Winunpsnoot, chief OF the Una
tlllas, died at the reservation near Pen
dleton, at thu age OF Is years. He wa,
always friend OF the white man, and
contributed much 10 the advanced
state OF civilization attained by tn,
umatillas. PEG, alias Elijah Lowrie
is his only son, an ordained elder il
the Presbyterian church upon the res
ervation, and succeeds his father a
chief Of the Umatillas.
Stockmen, who have made sew era
tests, have figured oft tn 1t most of tn
losses OF range cattle last winter wa
due to the short range, and not tn
cold snap. Cattle were forced to es
grease brush, which would not diges
the sharp points cutting the stomach
full OF holes. The stomachs of som
OK thts> cut open were found to b
pierced like n sieve, and to contai
stiff pieces of grease brush eight an,
ten inches in length.
Oscar Nj. Kelly, who murdered hi
wife Clara on the night OF June 10
was taken from the jail at Dallas by ,
body of thirty men and hanged to ar
oak tree in the courthouse yard. Be
tween l 80 aud AS o'clock a. M.
there came riding up the main street
OF Dallas, from the north, party OF
over thirty men, who proceeded straight
to the county Jail, situated in the block
north OF the courthouse, and stopped
In front OF the door. Kelly and his
guard, Harry Depew, were quietly
sleeping in separate cells, obliyious of
the awful events which were to follow
The clatter OF approaching hoofs and
the noise OF the wagons awakened both
at about the came time. Keltv, in
stantly realizing what was the cause OF
the unusual noise, calmly said to his
guard, They're come," and asked him
Tor his knife. Being refused he re-
peated tne request which was again
declined. Getting up and going to the
window Depew saw in the clear moon.
light the preparations preparatory To
storming the Jail. The mob was every
one masked, except the one under
whose directions they seemed to be
working. His face was bare, as If de-
'pising the concealment of identity
which the others effected. Depew was
again disturbed by Kelly calling for
his knife, and he stated to him that he
could not let him have it. Presently
.he sound OF breaking glass was heard
rom the direction of the CELL followed
~ heavy breathing. 1t afterwards
'r.anspired that Kelly, having broken
lis glass lamp, had desperately endea. |
'ored to sever either the carotid ar.
cry or ]ugular vein, with the evident
Intention OF cheating his would-be
ynchers OF their prey. Failing TO find
teath as u1icR1y a, bo